Poetry

Mon Jan 16 2012 A Graphic 1995 by Ghassan Zaqtan Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah The endings are not oursnot anyone’s. Endings belong to Read more...	Mon Jan 16 2012 An Aside by Louisa Diodato Girls peeling skin, peeling splinters back, making origami Read more...	Mon Jan 16 2012 Beauvoir, at the Louisiane (Paris) by Rebecca A. Spears Beauvoir’s art was fictionor Sartre’s love for her was fictionor both. And so how to arrive at love Read more...
Mon Jan 16 2012 Charm Against Insomnia by Haley Leithauser Little mouse, littlegray hungerthat nibblesthe night to a bonytoothpick,little possibilityof Read more...	Mon Jan 16 2012 Crossing the Whole Country by Helen Wickes There’s turbulence, the plane suffering mood swings,the good ones floaty, but you can’t count on Read more...	Mon Jan 16 2012 Dear Postmodern Girlfriend by Joseph Spece What a lovelybunch of Frenchterms. What names.What attic simulacra, whatvapid lilt. The Read more...
Mon Jan 16 2012 Impossible Grace by Meena Alexander I At Herod’s gateI heap flowers in a crate Poppies, moist lilies—It’s dusk, I wait. II Wild iris— Read more...	Mon Jan 16 2012 In the Picture by Fady Joudah In the picture that wasn’t takenI lost my arthritis and started running But was stillOverrun by the Read more...	Mon Jan 16 2012 Into Life by Fady Joudah Mouths that breathe like fish out of waterFaster then slower pursed lips then gaping mouths Read more...

God's Party Town

Those flaxen evangelicals, imbued with their holy ghost or some such helter-skelter mania, were surely not from Chicago, not of Sweet Home—bused in from Kansas, perchance?
Returning the World to the Workshop: Using Theme

The reasons for my discomfort became clear one September afternoon at the Minnesota State Fair pig judging contest.
Reinvigorating the Creative Writing Workshop Using Blogs

As one student put it: “Too much liberty for me is death.”
Workshop Alternatives

In one fell swoop, this eliminates almost all the problems I’ve encountered in typical workshops.

Susie Bright: Interview

Big Sex Little Death focuses most of its pages on Bright’s complicated and sometimes painful history.
Ian Heames: Interview

Ian Heames began printmaking in a sub-basement several floors beneath a library at Oxford.
Brooklyn Copeland: Interview

I started writing poetry as a freshman in high school. I would buy blank notebooks as souvenirs because I found the idea of a bunch of blank pages really appealing.
Linda McCarriston: Interview

According to Linda McCarriston, poetry exists for reasons beyond displays of linguistic or lyrical talent.

Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate by Judith Kitchen

Over the course of ten years, Kitchen has jotted notes about photos she found in her family’s scrapbook. She has now collected her writings into a cohesive work accompanied by approximately seventy images.
Water Puppets by Quan Barry

There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets. The poems linger on scenes of profound violence and inhumanity, reporting heavy truths of war, massacre, and disaster.
Neighborhood Register by Marcus Jackson

In Neighborhood Register, Marcus Jackson eloquently establishes a time and place: the American Rust Belt of his adolescence during the late twentieth century.
Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master

Tamura’s work relentlessly pulls us into highly charged and disturbing themes of violence, culpability, and survival.